Arnaud D'Usseau

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Arnaud d'Usseau (April 18, 1916 – January 29, 1990) was a playwright and B-movie screenwriter who is perhaps best known today for his relationship with Dorothy Parker on The Ladies of the Corcorret.

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Career

D'Usseau was born in Los Angeles and was the son of Leon d'Usseau, who served as a screenwriter and director of some repute during the silent period. Ottola "Tola" Smith D'Usseau, his mother, was a character actress. He first noticed as the co-writer (with James Gow) of Tomorrow, the World!, a 1943 story about a German boy adopted by an American couple who then had to wrestle with his Nazi upbringing. In 1945, D'Usseau and Gow's second most controversial play, Deep Are the Roots, was released about a black army officer who falls in love with a former Senator's daughter. It was a 477 performances in less than 14 months, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Barbara Bel Geddes and Gordon Heath. The play was staged at the Metropolitan Playhouse in 2012.

His name appeared on the Hollywood blacklist in late 1950 as a Communist sympathizer. In 1953, he was forced to appear before Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist Tydings Committee, but he refused to answer any questions, saying that he would be able to discuss Communism with the senator in a forum where the cards were not stacking against him. He then migrated to Europe and began to write screenplays under various pseudonyms. He taught screenwriting at New York University and the School of Visual Arts after returning to the United States.

He died in 1990 at his home in New York after stomach cancer surgery.

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